Readers' Picks: Best Travel Songs of All Time

CNN ^ | Fri June 20, 2014 | Chuck Thompson

[nickcarraway]

Once in while, the CNN Travel braintrust blows it -- make that all the time if you happen to be @cnnalwaysblowsit47.

Such was the case last year when we published our updated list of the greatest travel songs ever recorded. Sure, we included a few unassailable classics about life on the travel trail.

Even @cnnisamoron231 couldn't rage against our inclusion of Willie Nelson's all-time sing-a-long "On the Road Again."

But we have to admit, once in a while, @iloathecnn and @cnntroll99 have valid points to make.

How exactly did we miss such obvious wanderlust ditties as the Allman Brothers Bands' "Ramblin' Man" and Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee"?

[Fiji Hill]

I wish I owned that Mercury.

[stiguy]

Tom Waits -Foreign Affair
Best travel song ever written. Probably his best song, too.

[Fiji Hill]

T-Model Boogie--Roscoe Gordon (1952)

[RegulatorCountry]

Humble Pie - “Thirty Days In The Hole”

http://youtu.be/sdXjm8pZMws

[Gay State Conservative]

A different genre...a different time:

Early Mrning Rain

500 Miles

[dfwgator]

Neal’s Fandango - The Doobie Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsvqK4A3X48

[dfwgator]

Eric Johnson - Zap

[Fiji Hill]

Hot Rod Race (Hawaiian version)--Tiny Hill & His Orchestra (1951)

[apocalypto]

"Waltzing Matilda"

[Mase]

Life is a Highway (I want to ride it all night long) Tom Cochran

[latina4dubya]

Leaving on a Jet Plane... Peter, Paul and Mary...

[VerySadAmerican]

I stand corrected. I know Bill Mack played it a lot. I think he did write Lee Ann Rhimes first hit.

[Fledermaus]

Led Zeppelin: Going To California

[Kozak]

Holiday Road and Dancin Across the USA...

[Stand Watch Listen]

Nat King Cole Rt 66

If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way, take the highway that is best
Get your kicks on route sixty-six

It winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than two thousand miles all the way
Get your kicks on route sixty-six

Now you go through St. Louis, Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma city is mighty pretty
You see Amarillo, Gallup, new Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona
Kinsman, Barstow, San Bernardino

Wont you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on route sixty-six

Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on route sixty-six
Get your kicks on route sixty-six
Get your kicks on route sixty-six

[Vision Thing]

Interstate Love Song by the Stone Temple Pilots.

And for Texans, Southbound 35 by Pat ‘effin’ Green!

[Fiji Hill]

I once got WBAP on my car radio late at night. However, since it was 1,500 miles away, i couldn’t listen to it for long.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Nelson Riddle orchestration score Route 66

[Vince Ferrer]

I'd vote for Roberto Plant's Big Log. It doesn't matter if you are driving or sitting still, by the time the song ends you will be a thousand miles from where you started.

[Arthur McGowan]

Fly Away to Ioway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlm8mcILmTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGa0d623wcQ